> On 28 Dec 2014, at 18:08, Christine Aguila <[email protected]> wrote: > > [...] > >> It would be nice to see them laid out on a page with text. One of the lost >> arts is laying out a photo essay as a set on a double-page spread, making >> different pictures work together so that the whole is greater than the sum >> of the parts. I have a book of great Life photo essays, and the layouts are >> really important. > > I have the Life book entitled Our Century in Pictures—are you speaking of > this one or a different one?
I have one called Great Photographic Essays from Life. I also have a book called W Eugene Smith and the Photographic Essay, which contains reprints of some of his great essays. > > Actually, that could be a fun PDML project, that is, people could use slides > from PowerPoint or Keynote, resize them to the double spread size of, say, > Life Magazine, layout the photo essay, then export each slide as a JPEG—then > post as usual. Folks could include originally written text if they wanted, > or not. > > Could be a way to help sharpen our photo essay skills. Just a thought. Sounds a lot like hard work! There are blog templates which can be used for this sort of thing. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
